[clue-tech] pcmcia wireless 802.11g card?

[Ken MacFerrin]

Jeff Cann wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I'm currently using a Linksys WPGXYZ under ndiswrapper.  It works great 
> until you use WEP and then it proceeds to lock up my system.  Rather 
> than spending more fruitless hours in vain hopes of getting the $30 
> LinkSys card working, I'd rather buy something supported natively by the 
> 2.6 kernel.
> 
> Based on this page, the Prism54 driver seems like a decent choice for 
> pcmcia wireless 802.11g replacement card"
> 
> http://hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Linux.Wireless.drivers.802.11ag.html#Prism54 
> 
> 
> I would like to know how to decipher the driver spec into an actual card 
> that I can purchase.  I'm looked on the Dlink, SMC,  Netgear, and 
> Conexant sites and don't see any way to correlate the driver description 
> to a particular card that will successfully use the prism54 driver.  The 
> driver refers to chipsets and they do not seem to be listed in product 
> descriptions.
> 
> How can I figure this out?  I appreciate any suggestions.
> 

I have a Linksys a/b/g card that runs just fine with WEP or WPA under 
both Debian and Gentoo using atheros/madwifi.  Linksys model WPC55AG ver 
1.1.
-Ken